Cara de Gitana

• Por: Daniel Magal

Letra:

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Negros tus cabellos

Dark-haired, your hair

Cubrían tu cuerpo

Covered your body

Tan llena de amor

So full of love

Te vi bailando

I saw you dancing

Otro te abrazaba

Another was holding you

Otro te besaba

Another was kissing you

Pero eras a mí

But you belonged to me

A quien mirabas

You were looking at

Cara de gitana

Gypsy face

Dulce apasionada

Sweet and passionate

Me diste tu amor

You gave me your love

Con una espada

With a sword

Hoy en los caminos

Now, on the streets

Vagas tu destino

Your destiny wanders

Vives el amor

You live for love

Robas cariño

Stealing affection

¿Dónde están tus ojos tan profundos?

Where are your deep, dark eyes?

¿Y aquel fuego de tus labios que eran míos?

And that fire in your lips that were mine?

El licor que bebo abre mis heridas

The liquor I drink opens my wounds

Me emborracha y más te quiero todavía

Makes me drunk, and I love you even more

Ay, ay, ay, ¿dónde, dónde estás, gitana mía?

Oh, oh, oh, where, where are you, my gypsy?

Es esta mi canción desesperada

This is my desperate song

Que te llama y que te busca en todas partes

That calls for you and searches everywhere

Pero donde va, de ti ya nadie sabe

But wherever I go, no one knows where you are

Negros tus cabellos

Dark-haired, your hair

Cubrían tu cuerpo

Covered your body

Tan llena de amor

So full of love

Te vi bailando

I saw you dancing

Otro te abrazaba

Another was holding you

Otro te besaba

Another was kissing you

Pero eras a mí

But you belonged to me

A quien mirabas

You were looking at

¿Dónde están tus ojos tan profundos?

Where are your deep, dark eyes?

¿Y aquel fuego de tus labios que eran míos?

And that fire in your lips that were mine?

El licor que bebo abre mis heridas

The liquor I drink opens my wounds

Me emborracha y más te quiero todavía

Makes me drunk, and I love you even more

Ay, ay, ay, ¿dónde, dónde estás, gitana mía?

Oh, oh, oh, where, where are you, my gypsy?

Es esta mi canción desesperada

This is my desperate song

Que te llama y que te busca en todas partes

That calls for you and searches everywhere

Pero donde va, de ti ya nadie sabe

But wherever I go, no one knows where you are

Negros tus cabellos

Dark-haired, your hair

Cubrían tu cuerpo

Covered your body

Tan llena de amor

So full of love

Te vi bailando

I saw you dancing

Otro te abrazaba

Another was holding you

Otro te besaba

Another was kissing you

Pero eras a mí

But you belonged to me

A quien mirabas

You were looking at

Cara de gitana

Gypsy face

Dulce apasionada

Sweet and passionate

Me diste tu amor

You gave me your love

Con una espada

With a sword

Hoy en los caminos

Now, on the streets

Vagas tu destino

Your destiny wanders

Vives el amor

You live for love

Robas cariño

Steal affection

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Vocabulario en esta canción:

Vocabulario	Significados
cabello /kaˈβeʝo/ A2	noun - hair
cuerpo /ˈkweɾpo/ A2	noun - body
amor /aˈmoɾ/ A2	noun - love
bailando /bai̯ˈlando/ A2	verb - dancing
besaba /besaˈβa/ B1	verb - kissed
mirabas /miˈɾaβas/ B1	verb - you looked at
profundos /pɾoˈfundo̝s/ B2	adjective - deep
fuego /ˈfweɣo/ A2	noun - fire
labios /ˈlaβjos/ A2	noun - lips
licor /liˈkor/ B1	noun - liquor, alcoholic drink
heridas /eˈɾiðas/ B2	noun - wounds
quiere /ˈkjeɾe/ A2	verb - wants
destino /desˈti̯no/ B1	noun - destiny, fate
camino /kaˈmi̯no/ A2	noun - road, path
robás /ˈroβas/ B1	verb - you steal

Gramática:

• Negros tus cabellos

  ➔ Adjective agreement in gender and number.

  ➔ In this line, "Negros" (black) agrees with "cabellos" (hair) in gender (masculine) and number (plural).

• Te vi bailando

  ➔ Past tense (preterite) for completed actions.

  ➔ The phrase "Te vi" (I saw you) uses the preterite tense to indicate a completed action in the past.

• Pero eras a mí a quien mirabas

  ➔ Use of indirect object pronouns.

  ➔ In this line, "a mí" (to me) is an indirect object pronoun indicating to whom the action is directed.

• ¿Dónde están tus ojos tan profundos?

  ➔ Interrogative structure for questions.

  ➔ The phrase uses an interrogative structure starting with "¿Dónde?" (Where?) to ask about the location of something.

• El licor que bebo abre mis heridas

  ➔ Relative clauses to provide additional information.

  ➔ The clause "que bebo" (that I drink) provides more information about "licor" (liquor).

• Es esta mi canción desesperada

  ➔ Use of demonstrative pronouns.

  ➔ The phrase "Es esta" (This is) uses a demonstrative pronoun to specify which song is being referred to.

• Ay, ay, ay, ¿dónde, dónde estás, gitana mía?

  ➔ Repetition for emphasis.

  ➔ The repetition of "Ay" and "dónde" emphasizes the speaker's longing and urgency in the question.